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incautious

[in-kaw-shuhs] / ɪnˈkɔ ʃəs /


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We’re a long way from those incautious days.

From Barron's Apr. 24, 2026

Even the animals are distinctive—especially Kōkī, the pet parrot who acts like a Shakespearean fool, squawking incautious truths to Tongan authority.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 8, 2025

He delighted in being candid, blunt, deliberately provocative and incautious.

From New York Times Jul. 27, 2022

This might then leave us with the impression of Levine as overly cautious in some ways but in others, particularly when his conducting was unflinchingly introspective or orgiastic, altogether incautious.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 21, 2017

Washington even suggested that Hunter tell his British case officer that he got the information because American officers “are very incautious in speaking of the strength of their regiments.”

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen




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